Show THE LATEST ajl THERE is firing all sio RIC along slone the again A general mormon question comes from the eastern press fress the most prien griea pr len lea iea t object of attack Is tho the ye legislature quito quite a bricf journalists are ite the impression impre eelon that v exta missile to hurl huri mon stronghold it Is ia tho cone come what stale ayt by tbt utah clique to abolish the be legi tive live assembly and ButaU tute an sp pointed the people this Territory jy have bava heard this it is like the monotony ol of awa song on an a dilapidated hand oi orgin IR but another in other places it may pin pa EB fi fa a new way to buttle buttie an old difficult the cleveland leader has hag the thi thead thiu 6 paragraph A ab acon congress ress ought to abells territorial ilal gial lawmaking law making power rule the territory through icesy a c 1 11 mission congress itself mak 0 necessary laws for the govern gover governa 5 of tho the district of Columbia ani and not for utah until the me moa are excluded from all particle in the territorial government will be trouble and nd p p polygamy continue to nourish flourish j to this the omaha bee t ponds 1 l this in fa he fhe heroic remedia remedying 9 by ex senator Benator paddock battla Batt nuit lw right has congress to thousands of law abiding cities A V utah because a portion of ohene in the territory profess a bellelli bel belief bellef lilli a polygamy under the law have U disfranchised franchised dis A govern mi commission would increase patronage and furnish fat ions for chronic office ba al these thebe minor advantages would bi mom moze than set off by the clod example of the establishment ola ota territorial tyran tyranny ny under be noa rule the habaly habeas corpus would suspended the tho right to trial miry abolished and audr ja citizen oizer arboth in 7 and guilty deprived 0 of their dearest political rights senator paddock did not nou originate the scheme it was vas concocted conceded by the men in utah who are kicking up most moat of the fuss which troubles the nation and adopted by him aa nel an heroic measure which he could le recommend commend when asked for a remedy forthe for tor the mormon eruption it contains oon con taina so no element of statesmanship but Is ia a rash lash and unreasonable project which would not be enter bained for a moment in reference to any other community but the ator mormons cormons Mor Alor mons against whom strong religious religions prejudice prevails at the last delegate election canvass district attorney van zile used need the menace of a legislative commission 03 rg 03 a threat if the people of utah did not elect him to congress it is not surprising then to hear bear of his advocacy of the monstrous proposition though wo must confess to some astonishment at auy nuy re publican paper with no particular ax to grind on this stone assisting to betit bet it in motion the st bt paul pioneer drets drega it appears has received some ou on this sub bub subject eject from the defeated candidate for the and replies plies piles in manner mannen the evil of polygamy a ly ga does not appe appear arto anto to be erad eradicable iea ica ble bie by any of the means which b bave have a ve been applied to its ita 6 suppression 1 duppre aslon though there are no da data ta as yet for estimating the final effect of the edmunds law jaw But still the problem does not seem impossible ol of solution the remedy proposed by mr van zile Is the familiar one of tha the entire disfranchise ment men I 1 of the botera ot the Terri territory torys the diaso laUon of 0 the present government ern ment and the appointment by the federal power of a supreme comm commission to the laws and administer cheing until the people aie ale ready forsell tor for self seif overn government ment itla it la to be regretted that the reasons for believing that this thia course would be any more moie et effectual thau that pursued in the past pasi are not given if we drop out of eight altogether the ugly question whether congress has the rigby to aDol liti a territorial government atten atlen it has onee whee been authorized thorf thorl zed nad and to disfranchise voters to whom it has once granted tae ballot there still 8 tili till remain several vital polygamists havo have already been dle die the next step would have to be the disfranchisement of nil all voters in the I 1 as sug bug spited weslei vu bat among these theae are several thousands of loyal and law la w abid ing fag citizens who are neither 13 A mists nor Mormon sand band from w whom the rIght ot suffrage would als ais aiso niso 0 have V to betoken betaken be laken taken for this thia there te no 0 war warrant warranting in either law or justice again suppose such a revolution and a commission establish ed ad what machinery would it pau put in operation for the suppression of polygamy mr van elje zila says that it would revise the laws jaws and administer them bul but he had previously taid kaid that prosecution in the courts will not beutle beetie the question guestion of polygamy and that sla a conviction ia practically impossible 11 it the jaw jw itself is impotent what instrument would tho the CommIs commission aion dion use ase it could scarcely be a law unto itself and no power haryet hag nag yet been suggested to put into its hands that would enable it to succeed where the united states courts have failed the objection to government by is not only constitutional jt A rests on the fact that no single reagon reason has yet baen been advanced to ehon show bow how it could deal with the tae evil with the slightest prospect ot huc Buc ceba cesa there la Is far more of practical importance to in ml mi van ziles assertion that mor monism moni m would die a natural death if 1 it were not for tha tho immigration of ignorant foreign proselytes prose lytes the taint dies out of the blood 0 of f tile the second generation it is impossible a to conceive of young men and women growing up in familiarity with the v views lews and practices ot of civilized society and still deciding to adhere to polygamy the ilfe ilie of that vile practice ijes lies ju in the importation of adult recruits the testimony that the people are beginning to take a little interest in politics for themselves is encouraging with actual lats franchised disfranchised dis as aa they are under the edmunds law and avith anew jaw preventing the immigration of persona believing in or in tending to practice polygamy there is every reason to believe thal thai the trouble of buch euch long standing would perl of the tha inherent weak ness nesa which comes cornea ot immorality at least there is a reasonable promise of final success in this course to which nothing whatever la buted by the proposal to both innocent md and to give plenary powers to a commission which would need the sion blon of the habeas corpus the abolition of ovial by jury and the estabi lish ment of a system as foreign to our government as the strictest rel regime ame of martial laws law in order to accomplish any better results than those obtained in the tho past the pioneer press takes a very correct view of the commission commissio n scheme so far as it goes but I 1 it t does not as yet comprehend the fact that the suppression of polygamy and the destruction of 16 mormonism are not the ends in view of the originators of the measure the possession don and control of a rich an and d growing territory Is ia the prim that they have set heh out to win there is not one of them that cares a fig for polygamy or a straw for mormonism they know very well that if the infamy which they propose were effected tomorrow to morrow the only effect it would have upon polygamy would be the probable plundering of alleged polygamists it would not change the falther falth faith or the practice of the keople people it would only make possible a system of blackmailing and oppression for the enrichment of a few unprincipled plotters against the peace of utah the A pioneer press sees one great error in the plan proposed but falls into another of equal dimensions the life of polygamy does not no j de pend upon adult recruit s from abroad if there were no more im mg grants nr rants from europe to utah the question would re mainas at pres preb present ent but hift granting that the stoppage of mormon immigration were dosi desirable si how could it be ba determined i that certain persons persona about to land on the shores or of america believed or intended to en engage gage jn in polygamy or any other objectionable tice the weakness of all the propositions for the overthrow of the mormon system consists in their impracticability and this proceeds from lack laok of understanding of that which Is intended to be destroyed there ts is not an editor out of five hundred in the united states who could give coned explanation of the creed ol of tha the mormons cormons Mor mons or even of their system of marris marriage ge its principal objects and effects I 1 hey ahey cant let iet it alone though and their comments and aud echoes of other peoples views are aze really laughable for their grotesque ignorance what in the world Is the country co 20 much exercised about in the con and movements of a few latter day saints living away in the valleys of tho the rocky mountains tit III if some of them marry more wives than one instead ot of living in the style of certain tian men in every city of the Union who is injured by it outside of their own circle why it is ia claimed that if this thing Is id let alone it will not be long before it will spread all over the united states and therefore something must be done at once to sup press prees it well this thia is an open confession of abject weakness Is this the power and beauty and superiority ot 0 those christian institutions I 1 which are the boast of the and the press prees if the ditmor money are lett iett alone to serve god as they believe to be ba right will the whole nation be brought to their views of religion and the family relation fifty million of chris xian tian sim ain aln aIm danger from a hundred and fifty thousand nhi glouse it if this Is really so there certainly must be something vastly superior lor in the mormon to that which Is known as chris fan tian lan civilization and if there fe I 1 why not give it a fair chance the very dread of the hireling clergy of allowing the religion called mor lillor monism to peacefully exi exl stis atia avid evidence that it is ia something that they cannot ove overcome acome by fair means if argument m ent scripture trained talent ardul pulp pulpit t eloquence missionary zeal money literature popular opinion and all the moral forces of the age are impotent against this system does it 16 not strike the common sense cense observer that there mastbe a power about it that is worth investigating when tho the christian divines of the world advocate force against a community of believers in a religion different from theirs it certainly arg arr argues gues that the obnoxious and ud dreaded thing Is beyond their legitimate influence and may be ba worth more than what they possess the denver loews has made a proposal I 1 in this connection which seems seema to please some bome of the papers it is 13 13 thia thib lei let the preachers prea chera call upon their flocks for and if the feeling against polygamy 14 as its utterances is ia loud an army of peaceful invaders can be poured into ioto the territory within a year that will outvote the mormons cormons and fill all the offices with christian statesmen this strikes us as being particular ly jy funny the nominal object Is ia the suppression of polygamy the effect of the project Is ia to be purely political it is justus just as we have said in regard to the local disturb disturber erb ers polygamy is but a pretense political control of the territory la is the actual end and aim what Is ia the army of peaceful invaders to accomplish why simply out vote the mormons cormons Mor mons and capture the local offices but what abut polygamy oh that will remain as it was but utah will be taken out of the hands of the mor cmor mons we will suggest the only feasible method of putting down polygamy if that is ia really desired by those who cry out against it make a special and consistent effort to convince the people called cormons mormons Mor cMor mons that it itis Is wrong that has never yet been attempted it is of no use to lie lle about it its to pervert scripture to attribute to it effects which it does dees not produce all that has been done over and over again bring forth your strong reasons compare facts quote scripture fairly point out the true teachings of nature over whelm the heterodox mormons cormons Mor mons by the resistless tido tide of orthodox truth they are a rational people they have gathered to utah for lor principles bake sake they have been convinced one way now try to convince them tho the other this whis would to be a new now thing under the sun and it 1 it fallad the situation would be no woree than at present but this vain pretense of wanting to destroy polygamy and only devising plans to deprive people who do not practice it of every political right so as to give a few emals a chance to plunder a territory is the bight of a disgrace to all who give it countenance |